By 2025, it will be possible to reach all cities with county rights and eleven border stations on expressways - Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics emphasized on Friday the new section of the M85 expressway between the Balf and Fertőrákos junctions and the new section of Pozsonyi út connected to it, which touches the interior of Sopron handover, in the border of Sopron.
The head of the ministry reminded that a four-lane road can be reached within thirty minutes from any domestic settlement as a policy goal highlighted five years ago. This has already been achieved for almost three-quarters of the residents, and by 2025, three-quarters of Hungarian settlements - nine out of ten people - will be within half an hour of a four-lane road, he added.
He also mentioned that since 2019, the length of domestic highways and motorways has increased by at least one hundred kilometers every year.
The minister emphasized that the M85 road serves two strategic purposes: it connects Sopron to the national network, and on the other hand, it creates a high-quality road connection with Austria, since the still missing section to the national border will be completed by the fall of 2024.
László Palkovics said that there are only three cities with county rights, Békéscsaba, Kaposvár and Zalaegerszeg, to be connected to express traffic.
He also emphasized that the number of Hungarian-Austrian high-speed connections will triple within three years. The connection has been in operation since 1996 with the construction of the M1 highway up to Hegyeshalom, the section of the M8 highway between Körmend and Rábafüzes was handed over in autumn, and the construction of it to the border can be completed in 2024, just like the M85 road. Since 2010, almost HUF 300 billion have been spent on the construction of each section of the latter, he said.
It was mentioned that the European Union and domestic goal is to reduce the number of fatal road accidents by half by 2030 and to zero by 2050.
László Palkovics also touched on the railway and cycling developments in the region and emphasized that the government is making people's lives easier with transport developments in Sopron and its region.
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Featured image: Tibort Navracsics, the government commissioner responsible for the implementation of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 EKF program, speaks at the press conference held at the Hotel Sopron on December 10, 2021, after the economic forum presenting development opportunities for Sopron and its region. From the right, Minister of Innovation and Technology László Palkovics (j3), Mayor Ciprián Farkas (Fidesz-KDNP) (j2) and Attila Barcza, Fidesz representative of Sopron and its region (j)
Photo: MTI/István Filep
